July, 2009


20
Jul 09

“plastic material normally associated with the sport of swimming”

Snorkel Training, by chuck_nc, used under CC-BY-SA

Training, by chuck_nc, used under CC-BY-SA

One of the things you can bring into the California bar exam is ‘earplugs or plastic material normally associated with the sport of swimming‘. Two things I really want right now:

1) to walk into the exam with a snorkel.
2) to know why this was put in the list. This must have made sense to someone, at some time; maybe someone with some sort of eye allergies wanted to wear goggles? Someone had a serious medical need to cover their hair with a headcap? There must be an explanation. I really, really want to know what it is…

[search engine nerdiness data point: bing has only 9 results for "plastic material normally associated with the sport of swimming", where google has 19, including one result from twitter. But unlike google, bing appears to actually find the relevant document on the calbar website. This is particularly interesting to me given that it is obvious (from searches for various NY restaurants) that bing does not search inside flash, but is the first proof I've seen that they search pdf.]


14
Jul 09

FLOSS Law Review

I thought I was done with law review blogging for a while, but apparently not! The International FLOSS Law Review has just published their first issue, with what looks to be a fair number of interesting articles. I look forward to seeing how it progresses.


12
Jul 09

rome travel advice request

Now that all my European friends are back from their fun in the sun:

Does anyone have a recommendation of a hotel near the train station in Rome? It will be for just one night, coming in by train the night before and leaving by plane at 10am the next morning. Cheap is good, clean is good. Small and unattached bathroom is fine- it’s just me. Since mostly this is just a bed in between train and airport, convenience to train station is good too :)

Alternately, offers of couches are welcome, though as far as I can think off the top of my head I don’t know any Romans :)

Thanks in advance…


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